Ole Møystad

About

Dr.Ing. Ole Möystad M.Arch was appointed Full Professor at the NTNU (www.ntnu.edu/metamorphosis) in 2012. 2011-2015 he was the head of the faculty’s office at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in Xi’an (www.xauat.edu.cn), where he founded the Sino-Norwegian Architecture Forum (www.SNAForum.com), which he led in collaboration with XAUAT in Xi’an and Tsinghua University in Beijing through 2015, when he initiated and now heads the Urban Trigger Group at Metamorphosis, NTNU. The Urban Trigger Network comprises researchers from NTNU, TUDelft and Bartlett UCL. During 2016 Möystad was visiting researcher at TUDelft.

Möystad received his M.Arch from Oslo School of Architecture in 1986, and after obtaining his doctor of engineering in 1994, he took up a full time position as assistant professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the American University of Beirut (www.aub.edu.lb), where he taught, practiced and researched on processes of rapid change and urban reconstruction. Later he has been associated to ETSAB, Barcelona and Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa as a visiting lecturer in their PhD programs.

In order to maintain a realistic and pragmatist foothold for his research interests, he has always been engaged in architectural practice. In 2006 he co-founded STUDIO hp AS with M.Arch. PhD Hettie Pisters: www.STUDIOhp.as, and in 2015 he founded the Urban Trigger Group at the NTNU in Norway.

His research interest, first established in his doctorate, concerns the city conceived and construed as an intelligent (eco- )system. His main focus has always been to understand the built environment not in terms of bricks and mortar, but in terms of how we shape it (from initiation and concept through construction and use) and how it shapes us. After studying this topic theoretically through his doctoral research, he spent three years in post war Beirut investigating the pathology of the urban environment caused by the strain of too rapid change. During later years he has pursued these topics through a number of articles and projects, all with a keen eye on questions of intelligence, meaning and pragmatism; on the interplay between thoughts and things, as well as a search for the agents and triggers of urban change and development. He has recently published a scientific monography titled Cognition and the Built Environment on Routledge London/New York:

https://www.routledge.com/Cognition-and-the-Built-Environment/Moystad/p/book/9781138188365

Publications

2023

Möystad, Ole. (2023) Lynch meets Moser: cognition, brain and environment. Estudos Semióticos
Academic article

2018

Skatland, Jørgen Hallås; Möystad, Ole; Lohne, Jardar. (2018) Society`s Blueprints - a study of the Norwegian Building Code`s modal descriptions of a building. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article

2017

Möystad, Ole. (2017) Cognition and the Built Environment. Routledge
Academic monograph

2015

Möystad, Ole. (2015) What is an Urban Trigger?.
Non-fiction chapter
Andreassen, Thea Hougsrud; Möystad, Ole; Eklund, Tarjei Zakarias. (2015) Urban Triggers Projects 2015. Skipnes Kommunikasjon AS
Research report
Möystad, Ole; Hansen, Geir K.; Andreassen, Thea Hougsrud; Nermo, Mads; Eklund, Tarjei Zakarias; Næss, Marius Hauland. (2015) Urban Trigger Group - Anthology 2005-2015 The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art. Skipnes Kommunikasjon AS
Anthology
Møystad, Ole. (2015) Rapid Change and Cultural Vacuum. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2015) Learning, Thinking+Doing Architecture. Community Design
Academic article

2014

Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Robert Greenwood, Snohetta Architecture and Design. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Fast or Furious. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Olav Kristoffersen, Brendeland og Kristoffersen Arkitekter AS. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Johanne Borthne, SuperUnion Architects. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2014) Margarinfabrikken Kindergarten.
Non-fiction chapter
Møystad, Ole. (2014) 23rd July. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) 23. juli. Arkitektur N
Professional article

2013

Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2013) The Urban Act Intelligence, Plan, and Project in Urban Development. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Henriette G. M. P.; Møystad, Ole. (2013) The Urban Act – Intelligence, plan and Project in Urban development. Arkitektur N
Academic literature review
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2013) Den urbane handling - Intelligens, plan og prosjekt i byutviklingen. Arkitektur N
Academic literature review
Møystad, Ole. (2013) Is it Sustainable to Believe in Spite of Better Knowledge?. CONDITIONS magazine
Editorial

2012

Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie; Bjørnstad, Per Arne. (2012) Margarinfabrikken Barnehage. Arkitektur N
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2012) The Spirit of Place in a Multicultural Society. Arkitektur N
Academic article

2010

Möystad, Ole. (2010) Rethinking Place in a Multicultural Society.
Non-fiction chapter
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2010) Notodden Blueshus - utkast arkitektkonkurranse.
Architecture
Møystad, Ole. (2010) Fields and Forces. CONDITIONS magazine
Academic article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie; Hellsten, akitekter Ghilardi og. (2010) FutureBuilt Furuseth.
Architecture
Møystad, Ole. (2010) Egene Park, Stavanger. De Architect
Professional article

2009

Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2009) Growing Infrastructure. CONDITIONS magazine
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2009) Sverre Fehn obituary. De Architect
Academic article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2009) Vertical Landscape Urbanism.
Architecture

2008

Møystad, Ole. (2008) Brå endringer og kulturelt vakuum. Arkitektur N
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2008) Operahuis in Bjørvika, Oslo. De Architect
Book review

2007

Møystad, Ole. (2007) Urbain par implication - Commentaires sur la globalisation et l'urbanisme au 20e siècle.
Academic chapter
Carlsen, Jan; Colding, Cornelius; Gregersen, Anne-Marie; Møystad, Ole. (2007) Genopbygning i et minefeldt. ARKfokus : tidsskrift for arkitektur, design, by og land
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2007) Boatline. Volume
Conference abstract

1996

Møystad, Ole. (1996) Building Culture. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article

1995

Møystad, Ole. (1995) Some Notes for a History of Meaning. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article

1994

Møystad, Ole. (1994) Architecture - the Body of Cognition. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo
Doctoral thesis

1993

Møystad, Ole. (1993) The Effect of a Butterfly upon an Opus of Architecture - a catastrophe theoretical approach to design theory. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article

Journal publications

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Stedets ånd og det flerkulturelle samfunn - om hvordan Christian Norberg-Schulz utviklet 'sted' som arkitektonisk grunnbegrep og som nasjonalt, kulturpolitisk instrument. Byggekunst
Academic article
Skatland, Jørgen Hallås; Möystad, Ole; Lohne, Jardar. (2018) Society`s Blueprints - a study of the Norwegian Building Code`s modal descriptions of a building. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2006) Et rop om nytt fokus - en samtale mellom Ole Møystad og Winy Maas. Byggekunst
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Robert Greenwood, Snohetta Architecture and Design. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Fast or Furious. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2013) The Urban Act Intelligence, Plan, and Project in Urban Development. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2009) Growing Infrastructure. CONDITIONS magazine
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2000) Noorse Architectuur worstelt met eigen context. De Architect
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (1999) Op het raakvlak van zintuiglijkheid en ratio Kiasma museum van Steven Holl in Helsinki. De Architect
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (1998) Architectuurpraktijk in de vorm van een netwerk, een beschouwing over de werkwijze van de groep Ocean. De Architect
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2005) En samtale med Jean Francois Lyotard - bopælen og det postmoderne. Mutér
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2005) Pastoralt landskap eller slagmark? - Bilder fra sårkanten. Le Monde Diplomatique
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2010) Fields and Forces. CONDITIONS magazine
Academic article
Møystad, Henriette G. M. P.; Møystad, Ole. (2013) The Urban Act – Intelligence, plan and Project in Urban development. Arkitektur N
Academic literature review
Möystad, Ole. (2023) Lynch meets Moser: cognition, brain and environment. Estudos Semióticos
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2006) 100 år "ledsaget av mange og gode lysbilleder.". Byggekunst
Popular science article
Carlsen, Jan; Colding, Cornelius; Gregersen, Anne-Marie; Møystad, Ole. (2007) Genopbygning i et minefeldt. ARKfokus : tidsskrift for arkitektur, design, by og land
Popular science article
Møystad, Ole. (2010) Egene Park, Stavanger. De Architect
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (1996) Building Culture. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (1995) Some Notes for a History of Meaning. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (1993) The Effect of a Butterfly upon an Opus of Architecture - a catastrophe theoretical approach to design theory. Nordisk arkitekturforskning
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (1998) Morphogenesis of the Beirut Green-Line; Theoretical Approaches Betetween Architecture and Geography. Cahiers de Géographie du Québec
Academic article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2013) Den urbane handling - Intelligens, plan og prosjekt i byutviklingen. Arkitektur N
Academic literature review
Møystad, Ole. (2013) Is it Sustainable to Believe in Spite of Better Knowledge?. CONDITIONS magazine
Editorial
Møystad, Ole. (2007) Boatline. Volume
Conference abstract
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Olav Kristoffersen, Brendeland og Kristoffersen Arkitekter AS. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) Interview with Johanne Borthne, SuperUnion Architects. Community Design
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2009) Sverre Fehn obituary. De Architect
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) 23rd July. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2014) 23. juli. Arkitektur N
Professional article
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie; Bjørnstad, Per Arne. (2012) Margarinfabrikken Barnehage. Arkitektur N
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2012) The Spirit of Place in a Multicultural Society. Arkitektur N
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2008) Brå endringer og kulturelt vakuum. Arkitektur N
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2015) Rapid Change and Cultural Vacuum. Architecturenorway.no
Professional article
Møystad, Ole. (2015) Learning, Thinking+Doing Architecture. Community Design
Academic article
Møystad, Ole. (2008) Operahuis in Bjørvika, Oslo. De Architect
Book review

Artistic productions

Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2010) Notodden Blueshus - utkast arkitektkonkurranse.
Architecture
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie; Hellsten, akitekter Ghilardi og. (2010) FutureBuilt Furuseth.
Architecture
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2009) Vertical Landscape Urbanism.
Architecture

Books

Möystad, Ole. (2017) Cognition and the Built Environment. Routledge
Academic monograph
Möystad, Ole; Hansen, Geir K.; Andreassen, Thea Hougsrud; Nermo, Mads; Eklund, Tarjei Zakarias; Næss, Marius Hauland. (2015) Urban Trigger Group - Anthology 2005-2015 The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art. Skipnes Kommunikasjon AS
Anthology

Part of book/report

Møystad, Ole. (2007) Urbain par implication - Commentaires sur la globalisation et l'urbanisme au 20e siècle.
Academic chapter
Møystad, Ole. (2000) Bopælen og det postmoderne/Dwelling and the Postmodern - a conversation with Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Academic chapter
Möystad, Ole. (2010) Rethinking Place in a Multicultural Society.
Non-fiction chapter
Möystad, Ole. (2015) What is an Urban Trigger?.
Non-fiction chapter
Møystad, Ole; Pisters, Hettie. (2014) Margarinfabrikken Kindergarten.
Non-fiction chapter

Report

Andreassen, Thea Hougsrud; Möystad, Ole; Eklund, Tarjei Zakarias. (2015) Urban Triggers Projects 2015. Skipnes Kommunikasjon AS
Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

Møystad, Ole. (1994) Architecture - the Body of Cognition. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo
Doctoral thesis

Teaching

Courses

AAR4715 - Architecture and the City - Knowledge Course A

Outreach

2021

Feature article

Möystad, Ole; Skatland, Jørgen Hallås. (2021) Matprodeuksjon i Trøndelag.
Feature article

Möystad, Ole; Skatland, Jørgen Hallås; Mowinckel Nilsen, Hugo Andre. (2021) Bygg med nye tanker og gamle deler.
Interview

Vidts, Bram; Daenens, Bo; Möystad, Ole. (2021) Podcast Ole Møystad on Belgian Architecture.

2016

Conference lecture

Skatland, Jørgen Hallås; Möystad, Ole. (2016) “Same game, different rules. 5 different conceptualisations of information among key actors in the early phase development of a shopping centre in Norway during the late 2000s”. International Conference ARQUITECTONICS NETWORK: MIND, LAND AND SOCIETY

2015

Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2015) Place and Identity is a dangerous mix. Kunstnerseminar
Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole; Skatland, Jørgen Hallås. (2015) Socity's Blueprint of Architecture - an analytical reading of national building laws as canonical text on the object of architecture. Architecture & Knowledge
Interview

Møystad, Ole; Xu, Dongming. (2015) Interview With Professor Ole Möystad, NTNU.

2014

Lecture

Møystad, Ole; Ekelund, Tarjei Zakarias; Nguyen, Thao. (2014) Jernbanestasjon i Larvik Indre Havn. Jernbanekonferanse
Interview

Hennissen, Grethe Kristin; Møystad, Ole. (2014) Sted og identitet hører ikke sammen.
Conference poster

Møystad, Ole; Breines, Jostein; Nermo, Mads. (2014) Augmented Urban Systems - the Case of Kirkenes. Urban Modelling - Toward integrated modelling of urban systems
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2014) Intervjuet om norsk etterkrigsmodernisme i Dokumentarmagasinet PLOT #2-2014. Journalist Askild Matre Aasarød.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2014) Intervjuet om sikkerhetsindustrien i Ny Tid journalist: Torbjørn Tumyr Nielsen.
Interview

Kristoffersen, Olav; Möystad, Ole. (2014) Interview - Olav Kristoffersen.

2013

Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2013) BY i OLJE - kveler oljen kreativitet og innovasjon?. Norsk Forms årskonferanse 2013

2012

Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2012) Mellom mitt prosjekt og vår by - prosjektbasert byutvikling. To kulturer møtes
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2012) Mellom mitt prosjekt og vår by. Byutviklingsseminar i Tromsø
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2012) Urban by Implication. Miniseminar NTNU

2011

Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2011) Architecture is a Verb. Felles forelesningsserie
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2011) Architecture is A Verb 20x11. 20x11, What is the Question

2010

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2010) Real Estate and Urbanism. Felles forelesningsserie

2009

Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Jernbaneverket vil ikke bruke penger på heis.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Realistisk satsning.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Furuset kulturpark åpnet.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Gjesten-klage blankt avvist.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Vertikalforbindelsen verdenskjent.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Helt vilt, eller?.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) - Det handler om omdømmebygging.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Uenige om Gjesten-erstatteren.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) "Vertikalforbindelsen" verdenskjent.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Som cognac, daglistue eller boltreplass?.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Presentert i Scape.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Kvartal 15 ett steg videre.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Gjesten-naboer møtte arkitekten.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) Idédugnad om Bache-Gabrielsens plass.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2009) BLEST om Bache Gabrielsens plass.

2008

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2008) Robust Programs. Arquitectonics Network Conference

2007

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2007) A Boatline for Lebanon. Pearls for Lebanon
Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2007) Public Space and Proxy Programs. Beirut Unbuilt RSVP

2006

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2006) Beirut's Collateral Damage. Beirut Unbuilt
Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2006) CNS and the Construction of Ideology. Fehn Symposium 2006

2005

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Such Stuff as dreams are made on. PhD seminar
Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Inside Change. PhD seminar
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Urban Landscape Master Class. Intermediary Crit Session
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Such Stuff as Dreams are made on. fagseminar
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Visiting critic ved Peter Cook/Per Kartvedt studio AHO. Final Crit Session
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Innvandrere bygge i egen stil?.
Interview

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Snart grønt lys for parkeringsanlegg?.
Contribution to radio or TV

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Bør få bygge i innvandrer-stil.
Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2005) Catastrophe, Collateral Damage and Cutural Vacuum - a role for art in reconstruction?. Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity and Friction
Contribution to radio or TV

Møystad, Ole. (2005) "TV-bridge" between Norway and Lithuania.

2004

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2004) Urban by Implication - Some comments on globalisation and urbanism in the 20th century. 8ème Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Semiotique
Lecture

Møystad, Ole. (2004) Prototyp for marginale tomter. Seminar for Drifts og Reguleringsutvalget i Holmestrand Kommune

1996

Conference lecture

Møystad, Ole. (1996) Reconstructing Beirut. Seminar on Reconstruction of War Stricken Cities

Språkvelger

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Publications

2023

2018

2017

2015

2014

2013

2012

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2000

1999

1998

1996

1995

1994

1993

Journal publications

Artistic productions

Books

Part of book/report

Report

Student thesis or dissertation

Teaching

Courses

Outreach

2021

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

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